Please. We Mercedes owners are just as smug about our cars, which are also status symbols. We tend to keep them pretty clean and shiny (if you don't believe me, have a look at the detailing forum to see how extreme people can get). We tend to like people to notice that we drive them. As far as brake dust goes, I only really ever notice that on German cars, to be honest. I drove Hondas for years before driving MB, and I never had brake dust on my rims. Maybe the Japanese manufacturers use a different friction compound?

You could have replaced the word "Prius" with "Mercedes Benz" in every instance in the original post, and you'd have no problem finding a whole bunch of non-MB owners all too ready to agree with you.

Drive what you want, let them drive what they want. Free markets rock.

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Jonathan

2011 Mazda2
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1994 C280 (retired)